Everyone on Earth will lose a second of time in the next few years, but the exact time when this happens is now affected by human-caused climate change. For the first time in history, world timekeepers may have to consider removing a second from our clocks in a few years because the planet is spinning… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Genetic analysis has shed light on the long-standing mystery surrounding the fate of President George Washington’s younger brother Samuel and his relatives. Two of Samuel’s descendants and their mother were recently identified from skeletal remains… Read More »
Netflix’s series “3 Body Problems” features a three-star system.netflix The three-body problem is an age-old physics question that puzzled Isaac Newton. It describes the orbits of three bodies trapped in each other’s gravity, such as planets or stars. The problem was unsolvable and led to the development of chaos theory. Although Netflix’s “3 Body Problem”… Read More »
Turn around, bright eyes: A total eclipse requires total protection: These will help you safely control this very, very special event. You’ve probably heard the buzz: A solar eclipse will be visible from the United States on the afternoon of Monday, April 8, and now is the time to prepare. According to NASA, solar eclipses… Read More »
A total solar eclipse will be visible in the United States in April 2024 – this was an image of the 2017 eclipse in Oregon (ROB KERR) When a rare total solar eclipse sweeps across North America on April 8, scientists will be able to collect invaluable data on everything from the Sun’s atmosphere to… Read More »
Amazon has been a major staging ground for the spread of AI-generated spam. In fact, as we noticed earlier this year, the marketplace has already begun to be flooded with poor quality AI-generated listings; At the same time, of course, Amazon itself is working on technology to produce more of the same. Now the results… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Seeing even a total solar eclipse is a rare event. Photographer Stan Honda has three under his belt. His first experience was in 2015 on Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean; What he… Read More »